Townsend v. Libbey

How courts have described this case

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• noting that the delegates to the 1875 constitution refused to define the term \retrospective\ because the term already had an accepted meaning
• noting that the delegates to the 1875 constitution refused to define the term “retrospective” because the term already had an accepted meaning
• explaining that if a law relates to civil rights or remedies, then a court must determine whether the law is invalid because it is retrospective in its operation, where if a criminal law is at issue, then the prohibition against ex post facto laws applies
• describing the test for determining whether a law is civil or criminal in nature
• noting “the phrase ‘ex post facto law’ applies exclusively to criminal laws”
• “[T]he implicit.nature of a sub silentio holding has no stare decisis effect and is not binding on future decisions of this Court.”

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